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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

By : Amit Malik
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Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack

By: Amit Malik

Overview of this book

Windows Azure Pack is an on-premises cloud solution by Microsoft, which can be leveraged by Organizations and Services providers for building an enterprise class cloud solution. WAP provides consistent experience to Microsoft Azure, along with capabilities such as multi-tenancy, high density, self-service, automated. WAP can be leveraged to provide both IaaS & PaaS Offerings to internal and external customers. In this book, we will learn about planning and deployment of Cloud Fabric for Windows Azure Pack, Azure Pack components, VM Clouds and IaaS offerings, PaaS Offering including WebSites & Service Bus, DBaaS offerings, Automation with SMA, and extending capabilities with third party products integration and tenant experience for all services.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Preparing the installation of Windows Azure Pack WebSites cloud


Before starting the installation and configuration of WAP websites cloud, there are multiple prerequisites that need to be fulfilled. Let's have a look at them.

Preparing Windows servers

All servers designated to host websites cloud components must be running Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 operating system. It is recommended to patch the server with latest updates. It is advised to use a clean installation of the operating system.

Enable Windows Remote Management on all servers. Create inbound an access firewall rule for the following services for publisher and front end servers:

  • File and printer sharing (SMB-In)

  • Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI-In)

On all the server's user account control must be disabled for remote operations. This can be performed by adding the following registry key. Server must be restarted post adding the following registry key:

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\system /v...